Latest Fact Checks By Bill Wichert

Property taxes at Newark’s Prudential Center become issue in Bergen County Senate race

By Bill Wichert

October 19, 2011

"(Sen. Robert) Gordon cost us money, exempting the Newark sports arena from paying property taxes and sticking us with the bill." 

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Chris Christie calls comparisons between health care reforms “completely, intellectually dishonest”

By Bill Wichert , Erin O'Neill

October 13, 2011

Says "any attempt to try to compare" the Massachusetts health care law with the federal health care law is "completely, intellectually dishonest. Governor Romney did…

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Conservative activist Steve Lonegan claims “Social Security system is broke.”

By Bill Wichert

October 9, 2011

"Today, the Social Security system is broke."

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Television ad promotes Chris Christie’s spending cuts, increased education funding

By Bill Wichert

October 6, 2011

Says Gov. Chris Christie "cut spending (by) $1 billion" and provided "$850 million in new education funding."

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Chris Christie talks up job growth in New Jersey

By Bill Wichert , Erin O'Neill

October 4, 2011

Says "New Jersey's unemployment is significantly lower than it was when I got here. And we've created 50,000 new private sector jobs in the last…

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John Wisniewski claims Chris Christie’s ethics reform package represents a “new agenda”

By Bill Wichert

October 3, 2011

Says Gov. Chris Christie has "now come up with a new agenda" for ethics reform in September 2011.  

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Former Atlantic City Mayor Jim Whelan says his record includes the first decade of population growth since the 1920s

By Bill Wichert

September 30, 2011

Because of Jim Whelan, "the 1990s are the only decade since the 1920s when the population of Atlantic City actually went up."

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Chris Christie says Barack Obama failed to support solutions of deficit reduction commission

By Bill Wichert , Erin O'Neill

September 29, 2011

Says President Barack Obama failed "to stand up for the bipartisan debt solutions of the Simpson-Bowles Commission."

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New Jersey Sierra Club claims New Jersey loses “50 football fields of open space to development every day”

By Bill Wichert

September 19, 2011

Says New Jersey is "losing 50 football fields of open space to development every day and the more we develop upstream the more flooding we…

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Union leader Hetty Rosenstein claims average pensions are $23K for state workers, $14K for local government employees

By Bill Wichert

September 18, 2011

"The average state pension, including managers, is $23,000 a year; and just $14,000 for local government workers."

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg claims population growth in Lower Manhattan exceeds combined totals in Atlanta, Dallas and Philadelphia

By Bill Wichert

September 11, 2011

"Over the past 10 years, the number of people living in Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. In fact, Lower Manhattan has added more people over…

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New Jersey Rep. Jon Runyan claims debt ceiling compromise links “a debt ceiling increase to spending cuts for the first time ever”

By Bill Wichert

September 9, 2011

The deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling will "directly link a debt ceiling increase to spending cuts for the first time ever."

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